Syracuse University and the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism (INSCT) offer interdisciplinary as well as discipline specific security related courses and educational programs which address important questions of law and policy related national and international security and counterterrorism.  Students interested in pursuing a career in the security field may engage in advanced coursework toward specialty certificates in security and counterterrorism studies. 

Although national security and terrorism issues have taken center stage in our nation and institutions of higher education since the September 11th terrorist attacks, INSCT Director Professor William Banks and his colleagues have long researched and lectured about security issues.  Based on his experience teaching such courses as National Security Law, Counter Terrorism and the Law, and the interdisciplinary course Perspectives on Terrorism, Professor Banks traces the evolution of the study of national security law in his article Teaching and Learning About Terrorism.  This article was published in the 2005 Journal of Legal Education.

Certificate Programs

        A Certificate of Advanced Study in Security Studies is available to graduate

        students and a Certificate in National Security and Counterterrorism Law is

        available to law students who have prepared themselves as professionals in the

        expanding fields of national and international security and counterterrorism. 

Courses

        The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and the Syracuse University

        College of Law have developed an extensive security studies curriculum. 

        Courses are offered in a wide range of disciplines including public administration,

        political science, history, international relations, and anthropology at the Maxwell

        School; communications at the Newhouse School of Communication; and law at

        the College of Law.  In addition to discipline specific courses, interdisciplinary

        courses are offered such as Perspectives on Terrorism which is cross listed in

        three departments.  Click here for Fall 2008 courses.

Foreign Study at the Institute for Counterterrorism (ICT), Herzliya, Israel

       The Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism (INSCT) and the Maxwell

       School of Citizenship and Public Affairs have partnered with the Institute for

       Counter-Terrorism (ICT) and its parent institution, the Interdisciplinary Center, in

       Herzilya, Israel to develop educational programs.  A graduate student exchange

       program is now available to graduate students pursuing a range of graduate

       degrees.  Students may conduct independent research under the guidance of an

       ICT faculty member or senior researcher or serve as an intern for an ICT faculty

       member or researcher, as well as participate in ICT's three week Counter-

       Terrorism Executive Education Studies Program. 

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